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| Accounting Professor Receives Distinguished Service In Auditing Award |
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William F. Messier, Jr., the Kenneth and Tracy Knauss Endowed Chair in the Accounting, is the proud recipient of the 2008 American Accounting Association Auditing Sections Distinguished Service in Auditing Award. The award recognizes individuals who, over a period of at least 20 years, have made significant contributions to the profession and to scholarship. Dr. Messier received his doctorate from Indiana University in 1979 and has served in a professional capacity for nearly thirty years, making significant contributions in the areas of research, teaching, and academic and professional service.
Prior to joining the faculty at UNLV, Bill was the Deloitte & Touche LLP Professor at Georgia State University. He also holds a professorship at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and is a visiting professor of SDA Bocconi in Milan.
Bill served as the academic member of the AICPAs Auditing Standards Board and as chair of the AICPAs International Auditing Standards Subcommittee. He is a past editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and formerly president of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association. He is coauthor of "A Framework for Evaluating Control Exceptions and Deficiencies", the framework used by registered companies to evaluate control deficiencies under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Bill is the lead author on Auditing and Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach (6th edition) and has authored and coauthored more than 50 articles in accounting, decision science, and computer science journals.
Bill has served the profession as an award winning teacher and dissertation advisor, helping to train a generation and a half of auditing practitioners and auditing faculty. Since 1988, he has earned "Outstanding Teacher" and "Teacher of the Year" awards on six separate occasions. He has also been the chair of 15 doctoral dissertation committees, and has served as a member of 12 other dissertation committees.
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